[78-L] 78s in China

[Royal Pemberton]

You can have 78 rpm discs made, if you know where to look.  However,
no-one presses shellac discs; you'll have to settle for vinyl ones.

In fact, a group in England called Kitty, Daisy and Lewis released an
album last year, on five 10" vinyl 78s!  (They're two sisters and
their brother, and their parents also play in the group.  They do
their own recording on vintage equipment they've collected through the
years, and cut their own mono lacquer matrices on a restored Presto
machine.)

On 5/13/09, Glenn Amer <hammondmania at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings from a new subscriber to this list from Australia.
>
> The post about the Taiwanese 78s reminded me of an experience I had recently
> in China.
>
> I work as an entertainer on cruise ships and therefore do lots and lots of
> travelling around the world. One of my hobbies is collecting 78s from
> wherever I go (in addition to the regular collection I have at home).
>
> Last year in Peking (Beijing) I found some scratchy, average 1950s vintage
> Chinese 78s in an 'antique' shop. When the shopkeeper noticed that I was
> interested and not a local the price became $100 per disk! I just put them
> down and started laughing as I walked away. She almost chased me down the
> street offering them at a lower price.
>
> About two days later I was in Xian (where the entombed warriors are located)
> and found another stack of 78s in a real antique shop. The price quoted was
> 5 cents a disk, obviously I bought them all!
>
> Incidentally regarding the post about the Taiwanese 78s, my wife is from
> Taiwan and she says that they had a flourishing recording industry (in her
> father's era), but she's not sure if the records were pressed locally.
>
> I'm off to England soon to make my first acoustic cylinders for the Vulcan
> Record Company. Is there any company out there still pressing 78s? If there
> is, then I could die happily as I'll have done everything I have wanted to
> do (make pianola rolls, cylinders, CDs, AM and FM radio and TV!)
>
> Regards, Glenn.
> http://www.glennamer.com
>
>
>
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